At two o'clock in the afternoon of November 3, 2539 in the Divine Calendar, the combined fleet of the four navies composed of the Red Tiger Navy, the Blood Wolf Navy, the East Bear Navy, and the Ice Lion Navy, was only about two hundred kilometers away from the port of Ming Port of the Great Qin Kingdom, and this distance had already entered the combat radius of the fighters of the two sides.

At this time, in accordance with the order of Marshal Longcott, the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet of the Four Nations Navy, more than 1,600 warplanes of the 60 aircraft carriers of the Combined Fleet of the Four Nations Navy began to take off from each aircraft carrier, preparing to launch the first wave of attacks on the Daqin Navy, that is, the independent fleet of the Yueyang Front, located outside the port of Minggang.

At the same time, more than 600 fighters from the 22 improvised aircraft carriers of the independent fleet of the Yueyang Front and more than 800 fighters from the independent division of the air force of the Yueyang Front also began to converge in the sky over Ming Harbor, preparing to launch the first round of air strikes against the combined fleets of the navies of the four countries.

The two sides invariably dispatched almost half of their fighters at once, hoping to inflict heavy damage on each other in the first round of attacks.

However, what neither side expected was that the first wave of attack planes on both sides actually chose almost the same flight route, so an extremely fierce air battle immediately began in the air about 110 kilometers east of Minggang Port.

When the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet of the four navies of the four countries, Marshal Longcott of the Red Tiger Country, learned that the first wave of attack aircraft on his side had encountered the enemy's group halfway, he said to Marshal Fairford of the Blood Wolf Country, Admiral Delaware of the Ice Lion Country, and Admiral Withertham of the East Bear Country: "It seems that the second wave of attack aircraft groups cannot continue to set off, let the remaining fighters on each aircraft carrier first rise to the air in half to prepare for the air attack of the enemy group, and at the same time order all warships to prepare for air defense operations." ”

Fairford, the admiral of the Blood Wolf Country, hesitated for a moment and said, "I think let's just let the remaining fighters on each aircraft carrier take off into the air!" Even if the first wave of attack planes of our four-nation naval combined fleet encounters the enemy's aircraft group halfway, it may not be able to stop all the enemy planes, and maybe Daqin's fighters will fly over soon. ”

Marshal Fairford guessed accurately, after the first wave of attack aircraft groups on both sides encountered, the fighter formations of both sides quickly pounced on each other, and tried to eliminate each other's multiple bomber formations first, after all, the biggest threat to their own fleet is the enemy bomber formation.

After all, whether it is the Bamboo Dragonfly carrier-based fighter of the independent fleet or the Xiuniao fighter of the independent division of the Air Force, in all aspects of performance, it is superior to the carrier-based aircraft of the four navies, and most of the pilots who fly these Bamboo Dragonfly fighters and Xiuniao fighters are Air Force clones and Air Force biochemical people, and almost all of the Air Force clones and Air Force biochemical people can be called ace pilots.

Protected by a large number of fighters, the more than 600 fighters of the independent fleet and the more than 800 fighters of the independent division of the air force, about 580 bombers, these 580 bombers, protected by a large number of fighters, passed the interception of the first wave of attack planes of the joint fleet of the four navies almost unscathed, and continued to fly towards the main group of the combined fleets of the four navies.

However, the first wave of attack planes of the joint fleets of the four navies suffered very heavy losses under the attack of more than 900 fighters of the independent fleets and independent divisions of the air force, and after the attack planes of the two sides broke away, only more than 300 fighters and more than 200 bombers were left of the more than 1,600 fighters dispatched by the joint fleets of the four navies, and the number was already less than one-third.

If it were not for the first wave of attack planes of the independent fleet and the independent division of the air force, the main task would be to attack the main group of the combined fleet of the navy of the four countries.

In the bridge of the Super Dreadnought Battleship Xingchen, the flagship of the Independent Fleet, Liu Bin, the captain of the Xingchen, frowned and said to Ding Haifeng, the commander of the Independent Fleet: "Commander, why don't we let the first wave of attack aircraft completely wipe out the fighters of the four navies?" ”

Ding Haifeng, commander of the independent fleet, immediately said: "The task of the first wave of attack aircraft is to attack the fleets of the four navies, and as for those four naval fighters flying over, leave them to these fighters who protect our fleet!" ”

At this time, there were already more than 600 fighters hovering over the independent fleet, and these more than 400 fighters belonged to the independent division of the Air Force, and the other more than 200 fighters were Bamboo Dragonfly carrier-based fighters that took off from 22 improvised aircraft carriers.

The first wave of attack planes of the Independent Fleet and the Independent Air Force Division was about to fly over the combined fleet of the four navies when it was about to fly over the combined fleet of the four navies, but under the attack of many Bamboo Dragonfly carrier-based fighters and Hidetori fighters, an air passage was quickly opened for more than 500 bombers, and these more than 500 bombers immediately bombed the warships of the combined fleet of the four navies.

"Boom-" An escort aircraft carrier of the Red Tiger Navy, with a full load displacement of more than 20,000 tons, was only hit by a torpedo with a caliber of 533 mm, and quickly disappeared into the sea, after all, the escort aircraft carriers of the Red Tiger Navy were all urgently transformed from large transport ships, and they had no protection capability at all.

However, even a regular aircraft carrier, besieged by many bombers, could not escape the fate of sinking.

An aircraft carrier of the Red Tiger Navy, with a full load displacement of more than 40,000 tons, was hit by four 500-kilogram aerial bombs and three torpedoes with a caliber of 533 mm, and finally sank to the bottom of the sea.

When the first wave of attack aircraft of the Independent Fleet and the Air Force Division completed the attack, one large aircraft carrier, one medium aircraft carrier, two small aircraft carriers, nine escort carriers, two battle cruisers, two dreadnought battleships, four heavy cruisers, six light cruisers, and eight destroyers were sunk in the Red Tiger Navy.

The Blood Wolf Nation Navy also had one medium aircraft carrier, one small aircraft carrier, seven escort carriers, one super dreadnought battleship, one battle cruiser, one dreadnought battleship, two heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, and seven destroyers sunk.

The fleets of the Ice Lion Navy and the East Bear Navy had no losses due to their low position.

In the bridge of the aircraft carrier Sturdy of the Red Tiger Navy, Marshal Longcott said in a deep voice to the naval commanders of the other three countries: "Our four navies have sent attack aircraft groups, and they have just completed the first wave of attacks on the Great Qin Naval Fleet, but because the Great Qin Naval Fleet is protected by a large number of fighters, the attack aircraft group of our four navies has achieved very little success, and it can only be determined that one escort aircraft carrier of the Great Qin Navy has been sunk. ”

Marshal Fairford of the Blood Wolf Country said with a wry smile: "I didn't expect that we would pay such a big loss against the weak Great Qin Navy, just in the first wave of air raids by the other party, our Blood Wolf Country Navy and the Red Tiger Country Navy lost six regular aircraft carriers and sixteen escort aircraft carriers, and the Red Tiger Country Navy also sank two battle cruisers, two dreadnought battleships and four heavy cruisers, and our Blood Wolf Country Navy also has a super dreadnought battleship, a battle cruiser, One dreadnought battleship and two heavy cruisers were sunk, and most of the warships of our navies were wounded. ”

Marshal of the Red Tiger Navy, Long Cote, immediately hesitated and said: "Now the attack aircraft group sent by the navy of our four countries, and the fighters and bombers that can return to the sea, it seems that there are only more than sixty left, and I feel that if we want to completely solve the fleet of the Great Qin Navy, which is mainly an escort aircraft carrier, our joint fleet of the four navies must get closer to the fleet of the Great Qin Navy, and rely on the powerful naval artillery firepower of the combined fleet of our four navies to do it." ”

You must know that the first wave of attack planes sent by the joint fleet of the navies of the four countries had more than 1,600 carrier-based planes, and only a fraction of the carrier-based planes that are now returning to their homes remain.

In addition, in the air battle over the joint fleet of the four navies just now, the joint fleet of the four navies lost several hundred carrier-based aircraft, and it can be said that just after the war began, the joint fleet of the four navies had already lost almost two-thirds of its carrier-based aircraft, and it was obvious that it was almost impossible to rely on carrier-based aircraft to solve the independent fleet of the Yueyang Front.

Admiral Delaware of the Ice Lion Country nodded and said: "It cannot be denied that the fighters of the Great Qin Air Force and the carrier-based aircraft of the Great Qin Navy are much stronger than the carrier-based aircraft of our four navies in terms of performance in all aspects, and the other side also has a large number of excellent pilots, it seems that if you want to completely destroy the fleet of the Great Qin Navy, you can only shorten the distance between our two fleets and rely on naval guns to solve each other." ”

Admiral Withertham of the East Bear Country continued: "The remaining carrier-based fighters on the aircraft carriers of our four-nation navy can no longer take the initiative to attack in the future, we must keep these carrier-based fighters to protect the airspace above our four-nation naval combined fleet as much as possible, so that our four-nation naval combined fleet can reach the port outside the Great Qinming Port." ”

Although Ding Haifeng, the commander of the independent fleet, also knew that losses were inevitable in a big war of this scale, when a simple aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of more than 10,000 tons was blown up and sunk, Ding Haifeng still felt distressed enough.

"Contact the independent division of the Air Force, let the second wave of attack aircraft group attack, and let the aircraft carriers prepare to receive the carrier-based aircraft of the first wave of sortie to return, alas - this is just the beginning of the war, and we have already lost one aircraft carrier." After Ding Haifeng finished speaking, he shook his head helplessly.

Liu Bin, the captain of the Xingchen, immediately said: "Commander, according to the report of the first wave of attack aircraft groups, they have sunk at least more than twenty aircraft carriers of the navies of the four countries, although most of them are improvised aircraft carriers like our independent fleet, but there are also several regular aircraft carriers, and even sank a large aircraft carrier of the Red Tiger Navy, and the first wave of attack aircraft groups also sank a number of warships of other types, including a super dreadnought battleship, three battle cruisers and three dreadnought battleships. ”

Ding Haifeng sighed and said: "The results of the battle are very brilliant, but the scale of the combined fleet of the four navies is too large, and these losses are not even a loss to the combined fleet of the four navies, and the first wave of attack aircraft of our independent fleet and the independent division of the air force has lost more than a quarter." ”

Liu Bin, the captain of the Xingchen, pondered for a moment and said: "There is no way to lose so much, after all, the joint fleet of the four navies has hundreds of warships, and each warship has a large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and the only way for us to deal with the combined fleet of the four navies is to launch waves of air attacks." ”

Ding Haifeng rubbed his face with his hands, and then said: "Let the carrier-based aircraft involved in the first wave of attacks return home, replenish fuel and ammunition as soon as possible, and prepare to participate in the third wave of attacks. ”

By the end of dark, the independent fleet and independent division of the air force of the Yueyang Front had carried out a total of six waves of air raids on the combined fleet of the four navies, and after the six waves of air raids, the remaining warships of the combined fleet of the four navies had already arrived in the sea area less than 100 kilometers away from the port of Minggang.

In the six waves of air raids by the independent fleet and the independent division of the air force, the Red Tiger Navy sank a total of three large aircraft carriers, three medium aircraft carriers, four small aircraft carriers, seventeen escort carriers, four super dreadnought battleships, six battle cruisers, four dreadnought battleships, eleven heavy cruisers, eighteen light cruisers, twenty-two destroyers and two submarines.

The Blood Wolf Nation Navy sank two large aircraft carriers, one medium aircraft carrier, two small aircraft carriers, twelve escort carriers, two super dreadnought battleships, four battle cruisers, three dreadnought battleships, seven heavy cruisers, ten light cruisers, fifteen destroyers, and one submarine.

Among them, the three submarines of the Red Tiger Country Navy and the Blood Wolf Country Navy were all unlucky and sunk by aerial bombs that fell into the sea.

The fleets of the Ice Lion Navy and the East Bear Navy, although they were in a lower position, also suffered considerable losses in several rounds of air raids.

The Ice Lion Navy sank one battlecruiser, one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers, and three destroyers, and the East Bear Navy sank one small aircraft carrier, one battle cruiser, one dreadnought, two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, and three destroyers.

By the time it got dark, there were less than 600 carrier-based planes left in the independent fleet, and less than 800 fighters remained in the 16 air regiments of the independent air force division's many airfields near Minggang and the temporary field airfield.